MeridianAX & Partners
Start with the decision you face
You may need to clarify your strategic direction, identify a practical intervention or make an agreed change work in everyday operations.
Each engagement can be commissioned independently. We agree the scope, deliverables, responsibilities and fee before work begins.
Purpose Lab
Clarify your direction before choosing your investments.
When your organisation’s future direction is uncertain, individual technology decisions can become disconnected from the bigger picture.
Purpose Lab uses scenario planning and research-informed frameworks to explore plausible futures for your organisation.
We examine how customer needs, ways of working and capability requirements could change, then work back to the choices you face today.
You receive a Strategic Playbook:
• Strategic options and their implications.
• Priorities that remain useful across different scenarios.
• Capability gaps and dependencies.
• Assumptions to revisit and signals to monitor.
• Recommended next actions.
Indicative duration: 3-4 weeks.
Lighthouse Sprint
Find the first operational change worth testing
Your strategic direction is clear. The question is where a practical intervention could make a meaningful difference.
Lighthouse Sprint investigates a defined workflow with the people who understand it. We examine customer needs, friction, delays, rework and decisions that depend on human judgment. We then compare possible interventions, including changes to processes, roles, data, existing technology, automation and AI.
You receive a Lighthouse Blueprint:
• A clearly defined problem and proposed intervention.
• A baseline and measures of success.
• Responsibilities for people, technology and delivery.
• Dependencies, risks and assumptions.
• A bounded test and criteria for the next decision.
Indicative duration: approximately four weeks.
Technical implementation is scoped separately.
Transformation Program
Make theagreed change work in practice.
A promising intervention needs more than a launch. It needs clear ownership, workable processes and people who can use it effectively.
Transformation Program brings the relevant teams and partners together around an agreed outcome. We support workflow redesign, coordinate implementation responsibilities and help people adapt as roles and routines change.
Progress is assessed against an agreed baseline.
The findings guide whether to refine the intervention, extend it or reconsider the approach.
The engagement includes:
• Agreed outcomes, responsibilities and acceptance criteria.
• Workflow and role changes within scope.
• Implementation coordination and adoption support.
• Performance reviews and an improvement plan.
• A handover or agreed approach to ongoing ownership.
Indicative duration: 8-16+ weeks, depending on scope.
Technical development and integrations are included only where explicitly contracted.
Prefer to structure your thinking first?
Decision Room
A structured and self-service starting point for evaluating an AI idea or investment decision.
Clarify the business need, challenge assumptions, explore AI and non-AI alternatives, and identify what evidence is still needed before making a larger commitment.